AOC for the win.

[634-5789]

[progressoid]

1. k/r

[Wounded Bear]

2. K & R...nt

[Duppers]

3. And then there was a person who said...

God wouldn't let a raped woman become pregnant.

[lastlib]

29. I thought you girls were s'posed to "have a way to shut that thing down...."

Oh, wait--that was a f**king troglodyte's idea. Forget I said anything..

[IronLionZion]

4. Time for some states to replace their dumbass governors

let's start with Texas and Florida

[thesquanderer]

5. ...though technically, no, 6 weeks pregnant is not 2 weeks late for your period.

As weak as the rhythm method is, it's not totally useless. It's pretty much impossible to get pregnant during the week after your period ends, which is when you would have to get pregnant for 6 weeks of pregnancy to correspond to 2 weeks after when you expected your next period. Odds are, 2 weeks late for your period corresponds to 4 weeks or pregnancy. 6 weeks of pregnancy corresponds to 4 weeks late. Roughly speaking.

[SLClarke]

6. Based on a poor understanding of women's biology ...

Given that the sperm can live up to 10 days in the uterus, plus the fact that some women ovulate on organism, others ovulate more than once a month, some women have periods with no ovulation, some women have both ovum release eggs, some only release an egg from one ovum at a time, etc., so though I agree the "2 weeks pregnant" is not accurate, in actually, at best it is a guess.
By the way, the rhythm method only works when the women ovulates at the most, once a month, and only releases one egg a cycle.

[spooky3]

7. This doctor says you are incorrect:

https://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/can-you-get-pregnant-right-after-your-period#getting-pregnant-right-after-period

[Grins]

24. And who the hell is going to track that?

Does this imply women have to keep daily medical records? And provide them to the state or 3rd parties in violation of HIPPA?

What a damn mess.

[NH Ethylene]

11. Pregnancies are always dated from the first day of the last period,

Even though, on average, the embryo is two weeks younger.

[niyad]

13. When I was in college, I knew a woman who had her periods until she was four months

pregnant, and she carried small. These were traait shared by all the women in her family.

[niyad]

12. "What do you call people who use the rhythm method?" Answer: "parents".

An old one from my catholic school days.

Women cycle in many different ways. There is no one pattern that fits every woman, and it is absurd and insulting for people to authoritatively claim otherwise.

[unitedwethrive]

17. This is incorrect. Pregnancies have always been dated from the date of the last menstrual period.

That means that technically, a woman with a "normal" cycle is already two weeks pregnant at the moment of conception. A "six week" embryo has only been developing for four weeks. So, AOC is right, a woman with a regular 28-day cycle will be two weeks late when she is six weeks pregnant.

Women with irregular cycles (i.e. most women) will have a hard time noticing a missed period since we are not expecting a period on a set date.

[leftstreet]

9. I hate seeing the narrative shift

Her statements are great, but it's unfortunate the anti-choice people have the pro-choice helping define the parameters for a "proper" abortion

A individual's body is his/her own domain. Period.

Choice is choice

[DeeNice]

14. Thank you! /nt

[calimary]

18. Yep. This!

Damn right!!!

[LanternWaste]

10. Good for her

[Evolve Dammit]

15. You gotta push back against the Christo-Fascist Zombie Brigades! 24/7/365. Thanks AOC. nt

[FakeNoose]

16. Preach, Sister!

[calimary]

19. WOW!!!! That's FABULOUS!!!

Just absolutely WUNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNderful!

I freakin’ LOVE this protest sign!!!

May have to copy it for an upcoming rally!

It’s BRILLIANT!!!

[FakeNoose]

20. Of course my friend, be my guest

I've borrowed your stuff several times!

[calimary]

30. .

[tclambert]

21. But the governor of Texas says they're gonna get rid of all the rapists.

My guess is they'll do this by rewriting the rape laws so no one can ever successfully prosecute a man for rape ever again. Maybe they'll give the rapist the option to marry the woman. If he's willing to marry her, they can pretend that's not really rape, just a proposal of marriage. If she says no, that's her problem.

(I am having second thoughts about posting this for fear some legislator in Texas might get ideas.)

[TigressDem]

25. Just chop it off.

You misuse it. You lose it.

Rapists getting away with murder would no longer be a thing after the first conviction. As without the penis, it would simply be murder.

Also having to sit to pee might engender some sense of what it's like to be female. Who knows?

But if Texas is looking for radical ways to discourage rape, there it is.

[pansypoo53219]

22. will males be forced to pay child support? + is texass gonna pad the support if the daddy is poor?

[Progressive Jones]

23. K and R forever !!!

[BlueWavePsych]

26. K&R

[lambchopp59]

28. "Nanny state forcing me to git vaccinated"

Really now. And you're going to pay for all the nannies the whole state of Texas will need to care for the unwanted children? Except of course for those children that will die because you shouted "freedom" over sound medical advice. And of course the nanny state has to keep the likes of same-sex parents from adoption. Perhaps by that logic the nanny state should begin mass castrations?